‘Do you feel excluded?’ The subjective experience of young state benefit recipients in Germany

Popp, Sandra; Schels, Brigitte

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“…A summary index (range = 0-7) was also constructed using these seven items, with approximately the 'best performing' 85% of young people on any indicator given a score of 1, and the 'worst performing' 15% given a score of 0 (each indicator weighted equally). This is analogous to indexes sometimes used in the analysis of deprivation (Cappellari and Jenkins, 2006;Popp and Schels, 2008). The school engagement indicators and the index are more fully discussed in the Appendix (see also Redmond et al, 2016).…”

Section: The Right Kind Of Clothes To Fit In With Other People Your Agementioning

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Material deprivation and capability deprivation in the midst of affluence: The case of young people in Australia

Redmond

Skattebol

2019

Children and Youth Services Review

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This paper presents Australian young people's perspectives on deprivation that they experience in the space of food and clothing. Amartya Sen's Capability Approach is used to characterise this as absolute capability deprivation. Lack of adequate food and clothing denies young people the capability to avoid shame and severely inhibits the intrinsically important capabilities of social participation and engagement in education. We use data obtained from groupwork and in-depth interviews with 193 young people to explore young Australians' experience of severe deprivation in food and clothing. Their stories are integrated with data on severe deprivation collected in a nationally representative survey of 9-14 year olds (N=5,440). The survey data show that food and clothing deprivation is notable among young people who are marginalised in other respects, for example, young people with disability, young carers and Indigenous young people. The analysis shows that the experience of severe deprivation in the space of food and clothing is associated with feelings of shame, exclusion from participation, and low levels of engagement with education. We consider how neoliberal constructions of poverty exacerbate young people's experience of deprivation, while at the same time undermining the contemporary political agenda of maximising human capital development.

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Material deprivation and capability deprivation in the midst of affluence: The case of young people in Australia

Redmond

Skattebol

2019

Children and Youth Services Review

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“…Controlling for otherwise equal conditions, the findings report that among the surveyed sub-population of young adults, women do not take up employment or training more slowly than men; the migrants' chances to get off benefits via labour market integration are not significantly lower than for non-migrants. However, research has shown that migrants and women are certain risk groups for benefits receipt (Gangl 1998;Garcia and Kazepov 2002;Strengmann-Kuhn 2007), and in particular, young migrants are overrepresented among young beneficiaries in Germany (Achatz et al 2007;Popp and Schels 2008). But further risks of lasting benefits receipt for young migrants do not apply to exits from benefits via labour market integration like it would be assumed by statistical discrimination (Hypothesis 6).…”

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“…Since 2005, the number of 15-to 24-year-olds in receipt of benefits has consistently been around a million (German Federal Employment Agency 2008); this number of young people corresponds approximately 10 per cent of all young Germans in this age group (Popp and Schels 2008). Overall, the population of young beneficiaries in Germany is very heterogeneous; and this group is revisited in the analysis of the study.…”

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“…Furthermore, one tenth of young benefit clients were employees with insufficient earnings who have been additionally supported by the social benefit (Popp et al 2006). However, benefits receipt by young adults could also be caused by family circumstances if they are living with an unemployed partner or parent (Popp and Schels 2008).…”

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Young beneficiaries’ routes off benefits through labour market integration: the case of Germany

Schels

2011

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The study explores routes off benefits through labour market integration for young adults in Germany. Policies for young people are focused on a rapid integration into employment or training to prevent long-term benefits dependency. The causes of long-term benefits receipt can be related to poor labour market opportunities. But in political and public discourse, long-term benefits dependency is most widely regarded as the consequence of young adults' low labour supply. The article examines the labour market transitions of 650 beneficiaries aged 18 to 24. The analysis combines survey data on beneficiaries in Germany and longitudinal register data for 2005 to 2007. Though most of the young adults surveyed enter employment or vocational training, a high percentage continues to receive benefits. Long-term benefits receipt is related to low levels of qualifications and young parenthood; there is no evidence for young people resigning themselves to benefits receipt.

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“…This is corresponding with the fact that employers who actually hire persons previously long-term unemployed are positive about their motivation and readiness to work (Rebien and Müller 2013). Young beneficiaries' feel like being excluded by not being able to keep up with the leisure and consumerist behavior of their peers (Schels and Popp 2008). Interacting with welfare institutions, the Hartz IV beneficiaries show divergent rationality patterns in contact with the poverty institutions (submissive behavior, cooperation as pseudo-work, superficial adaptiveness, legitimate basic income with no reciprocity requirements, tit for tat, market chance improvement, self improvement, see Wenzel 2008), not all of which are suitable for the intentions of activation policies.…”

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Nueve años de hartz iv: evaluación de una reforma del bienestar

Promberger

2015

Cuad. Relac. Lab.

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Nine years ago, Germany has implemented Hartz IV, the last one in a series of welfare state reforms, merging the former separate systems of long term unemployment benefit and basic income support into a new system. The article summarizes the main empirical findings from a growing field and draws a few conclusions. Mainly, after years of heavy debates and practical experiences in Germany and elsewhere, it has to be said the goal of substantially reducing poverty and saving public money has not really been achieved. Although the system is working well in terms of financial support and population coverage, there are problems in providing cultural and social participation, and even the money is not enough under certain family constellations. Moreover, the idea to solve every poverty problem by rigid work first policies does obviously conflict with the observable heterogeneity of poverty situations. Main results are the disappearance of the privileges of persons in long term unemployment, a shift from permanent unemployment to unsteady low wage employment and need for further subsidies for a major part of the poor, as well as a consolidation of the normative image of a 'normal working citizen', making it harder to get support for people who don't fit into that scheme.

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‘Do you feel excluded?’ The subjective experience of young state benefit recipients in Germany

Cited by 20 publications

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Material deprivation and capability deprivation in the midst of affluence: The case of young people in Australia

Material deprivation and capability deprivation in the midst of affluence: The case of young people in Australia

Young beneficiaries’ routes off benefits through labour market integration: the case of Germany

Nueve años de hartz iv: evaluación de una reforma del bienestar

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